Re: Queue and SMP locking discussion (was Re: 3c59x.c)

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 05:32:20AM +0200, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:16:56AM -0500, Donald Becker wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, jamal wrote:
> > > Mitigation (which seems to be added to some of Donalds drivers by Jeff
> > > Garzik and Andrey Savochkin) will to a certain extent.
> 
> At least for eepro100, the receive interrupt mitigation doesn't exist in the
> driver.  There were some changes about TX completion interrupts, but I
> consider them as rather irrelevant.
> 
> The other question is that it's possible to turn on hardware interrupt
> mitigation on Intel's chips by uploading a microcode.
> Intel's driver claims to do it.

Interesting is that Intel's driver also shows how to use RX hardware checksums
(although they use a very ugly way to implement it with CHECKSUM_NONE,
instead of using CHECKSUM_HW).

Unfortunately my eepro100 is too old to have it (82557 rev 1) 


-Andi

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